TPP negotiators to ramp up talks

In the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, last week, the heads of 12 countries involved focused on “making meaningful progress on market access” in addition to smoothing out differences among the assembled parties, according to a joint statement.
The assembled negotiators — representatives from Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam — also pledged to ramp up momentum for the trade pact.
“As part of that effort, which will take place bilaterally and in other configurations, we have instructed our chief negotiators to meet in July,” according to the statement. “At the same time, ministers will continue to engage bilaterally to direct negotiations, coordinate, and tackle the most challenging outstanding issues. We will also continue our respective processes of domestic consultations.”